Damn, they really should have thought of that, huh
this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
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I'm ready for it to get much much worse so i can actually enjoy the stories of people saying they regret their choice. It's not nearly bad enough yet.
It will have to get really bad before people actually say it out loud. There are probably already a significant number of people who are thinking it, but to actually admit they were wrong or shortsighted?
The American conservative machine is built on always doubling down, never admitting you're wrong, never conceding, and never expressing doubts. Admitting you're wrong is "losing." They might vote in accordance with the belief that they were wrong (though more likely they'll just stay home), but they won't say it out loud.
This makes more sense when you look at conservatives as a whole. They're by far the largest consumers of sports, sports betting, and are hyper-competitive - they'll do anything to win.
Just go to any youth sports event and just observe who is doing what. The parents that are doing nothing but positive cheering for their team (and even congratulating the other team on a genuinely good play) look like your stereotypical NPR mom/dad. The ones screaming, coaching from the sidelines, complaining the "ref is fucking us", are all the same stereotypical conservatives sporting a goatee, karen cut, oakleys, and tacticool tshirts promoting warrior mentality.
For them, loss is weakness. Aggression is strength. The only way they'll even come close to admitting they fucked up is couching in a way that lets them save face. They'll blame someone or something else. Never themselves.
You can't lose if you never accept the final score.
By this point, it's clear that it's foolishly optimistic to assume they'll think of it in the next election, either. Fox News will spend the next year bleaching any memory of it from their brains.
If President Musk, who PROMISED to Cut my Medicaid, CUTS my Medicaid it's JOE BIDENS FAULT!
I'm new to lemmy, so I dont know the correct community, but c/leopardsatemyface
I think [email protected] is the most popular. Community links here are in the form of !communityname@hostinstance
Thanks.
You're welcome. Any questions about Lemmy or fedi in general?
Not at the moment. Seems pretty similar to Reddit except for a smaller user base and community-controlled. Going to take some adjusting that the subs I used to spend all of my time on have almost no members.
At the risk of giving unsolicited advice, I find that you get a lot of people willing to discuss things if you post in a general community related to the topic.
For example instead of posting in an empty sub for a specific video game or sports team, there's /c/gaming or /c/baseball that have people who are happy to chat.
If you're willing I have found that regularly contributing to a community, even if it's just you, will lead to others participating sooner than you may expect.
That advice about broader topics is also good however. Niche communities aren't generally necessary until the broader ones become too flooded.
Edit: unless focused on a hyper-niche, with tight focus, such as [email protected] or [email protected]
(Disclosure: I created both examples.
The only poll that matters is how people vote on election day.
A work requirement would be particularly perverse. It just further normalizes employers paying shit wages and providing little or no benefits, with programs like medicaid and snap making up the difference. It's an indirect subsidy that only makes it easier to keep wages low.
Maybe we should do the opposite and tax businesses that pay low enough wages for their employees to qualify for assistance. Although, we'd probably get more results by instituting an income inequality tax that increases based on the difference in total compensation between the highest and lowest paid employees. Make it so that the only way executives can increase their own pay is by paying their employees well too.
face-eating leopard sounds intensity
As they said after brexit, you won, get over it
It's not enough for conservatives to win. They want to rub your face in it. Make you bend the knee and kiss the ring.
This is about flexing power and influence and not about politicking.
And their base absolutely eats it up.